During months of practice for the annual Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry festival, Epic Sound, the slam team from Kenwood Academy, struggled to nail down their group piece. LTAB's required group piece is written collaboratively by an entire slam team and performed by four students. Epic Sound focused their group piece on the idea of abortion. The main character in the piece is a pregnant teen, and the group wanted to explore whether it is better not to be born than to be born into an unjust world.

Here is their piece:

Sons: When are we born?

Mothers: Is it when we embrace the world or defeat it?

Mother 1: I'm trembling, barricading my fortress,locking you inside my armor womb.Our heartbeats in sync like a chorus, but my life is amorphous. My silhouette not proportionate.I found a stranger in a self portrait.

Son 1: But you owe me half a soul!And since you put yourself in this situation,

Sons: I'm charging you double

Son 1: You can turn a necklace of pearls into a necklace of perils

Sons: and use that as a noose.

Son 1: But you shouldn't have to, I don't care about the things you went through because I'm only as strong as you teach me to be.I know you think you can't fight back but you have to, because when it comes down to it

Son 2: All I have is you.

Mother 2 and Son 2, speaking in the background as Mother 1 and Son 1 speak: I'm trembling, barricading my fortress,locking you inside my armor womb.Our heartbeats in sync like a chorus But my life is amorphous My silhouette not proportionateI found a stranger in a self portrait

Mother 1: I want to fight back but they've broken my hand.

Son 1: But you can still hit with a broken hand.

Mother 1: But how hard can a broken hand hit?It's like choosing between a gun and a rose.Either you take a life that you could have learned to love,